迷你英語口語情景對(duì)話:作兼職

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    作兼職
    A: What does your friend Jim do?
    你的朋友吉姆是干什么的?
    B: He is a teacher, but he makes a little money on the side by repairing cars in his free time.
    他是一位教師,但是也在空閑時(shí)間修理汽車掙點(diǎn)錢。
    A: He can repair cares? I cannot believe it.
    他能修汽車?我真不敢相信。
    B: Believe me, he is the first-class.
    相信我,他修車技術(shù)是一流的。
    地道表達(dá):
    on the side
    解詞釋義:
    side的本義是“側(cè)面”。該習(xí)語直接翻譯是“在側(cè)面”,引申為“作為兼職”。
    支持范例:
    1. He is a mechanic who buys and sells cars on the side.
    他是一個(gè)兼營買賣汽車的技工。
    2. He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.
    他是教師,可還兼職做一些新聞工作。
    3. I also sell insurance on the side.
    我也兼職做拉保險(xiǎn)。
    4. We told her that I do some handiwork on the side.
    我們告訴了她我兼職做些手工活。
    拓展講解:
    on the side除了有“作為兼職”的意思,還有“暗地里,秘密地”的意思。
    支持范例:
    1. She's married but she has a lover on the side.
    她雖然已婚,但暗地里還有一個(gè)情人。
    2. Maybe he boozes on the side.
    也許他還暗地里酗酒。
    詞海拾貝:
    1. makes money:掙錢
    He was a businessman, and therefore he always has an eye out for any opportunity to make money.
    他是商人,總見錢眼開。
    She scarcely makes enough money to make ends meet.
    她幾乎掙不到足夠的錢以維持開支。
    聯(lián)想記憶:
    make easy money:輕松掙錢,掙錢容易 make big money:掙大錢
    make a little money:掙一點(diǎn)錢 make more money:掙更多的錢
    2. in one's free time:在業(yè)余時(shí)間,在閑暇時(shí)間
    He usually employs himself in reading in his free time.
    在空閑時(shí)間他通常忙于閱讀。
    He augments his wages by working in his free time.
    他在業(yè)余時(shí)間繼續(xù)工作以增加工資收入。